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FAREWELL PERFORMANCE:
- Blonde bombshell Jan Fairchild told Gin she returned
from Hollywood to get in touch with her roots, and the old high
school gang certainly acted glad to see her. What the
cinema sex-symbol probably should have remembered: Most fatal
accidents occur within five miles of home.
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- March 2000
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-07456-6
- $5.99
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- "I read your latest
book [FAREWELL PERFORMANCE] ...and enjoyed it immensely. You
got the reunion atmosphere down just right--a mixture of regret,
jealously, bittersweet nostalgia, etc. But the part I liked best
was Gin's thoughts about her father, especially when she returned
to the school of which both had been a part. This was top literary
fiction, I think. Bravo!"
- - Robin Hathaway, Agatha
winning author of
- THE DOCTOR DIGS A GRAVE
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A SCORE TO SETTLE:
- To save her cousin's baby, savvy football fan, Ginger Barnes
tackles the murder of an NFL quarterback. Another surprise ending.
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- March 1999
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-96951-1
- $5.99
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- NO BONES ABOUT IT:
A dog trainer is accused of reprograming her ex-husband's guard
dog to turn on him. Trying to help out, Gin agrees to look into
the fate of the German shepherd, but the dog is doomed unless
a judge hears the truth and nothing but the truth. Lots in this
one about dieting and dogs.
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- February 1998
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-96423-4
- $5.99
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- "...you did a fancy
juggling act in "Bones" and pulled it off beautifully!
What caught me especially was how the various specialized dog-vegetarian-etc.
materials *all* tied together to give me a greater insight into
Gin herself as a person. THAT's pretty rare!...And, oh, golly!
what you say about Cynthia Struve is so utterly bang on! I don't
need to meet the woman...I'd know her anywhere!"
- - Ellie Miller, Independent
Reviewer
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SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS:
- Beech Tree Lane is having its very own crime wave. First
Gin's friend Liz is murdered by a home intruder, and now Letty
MacNair, the Barnes's eccentric older neighbor has been mugged.
Drawn farther and farther into Letty's problems, Gin discovers
the woman will never be safe until Liz's killer is caught.
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- February 1997
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-96104-9
- $5.99
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- "Too smart to be a cozy...."
a mystery bookseller says of SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS.
- - Carolyn, "Alice"
of Malice, The Mystery Bookstore, www.malicebooks.com
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tale-I read it in one sitting-with the family's problems as interesting
as those of the neighborhood. This third Ginger Barnes tale shows
a smooth style, quiet humor, and a feeling for the texture of
everyday life. Very highly recommended."
- - Janet Overmyer, The
Armchair Detective
- re SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
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appreciate Murray's smart, often insightful first-person narrative
and her coherent characters."
- - Publishers Weekly,
1/20/97
- re SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
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FINAL ARRANGEMENTS:
- Gin's mother trades a ride to the world-renowned
Philadelphia Flower show for two passes to see it before the
public arrives, a good deal until Iffy Bigelow, their #1 passenger,
turns up strangled, ostensibly by their #2 passenger, Iffy's
emotionally disturbed niece. Mom begs Gin to unearth the real
murderer. "You've done it before, now you can you can do
it for me."
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- February 1996
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-95765-3
- $5.99
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THE MAIN LINE IS MURDER:
- Gin, regarding Bryn Derwyn Academy's attorney, whose body
she has discovered inside the small private school's Community
room, "I disliked him the day we met, and nothing he's done
in the six months since has improved my opinion." Yet if
she doesn't hurry to (discreetly) solve the murder, there will
be no more Bryn Derwyn Academy for her husband to head, and the
Barnes family will be out on the street.
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- October 1995
- St. Martin's
Press
- ISBN #0-312-95637-1
- $5.50
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- "Murray is able to nail
down the atmosphere of the well-to-do, and Barnes' irreverent
attitude about her situation makes for a great character - almost
as if Spenser was a housewife."
- - DJS or The Drood Review
of Mystery, 9-10/95
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deftly weaves a troubling tale of academic politics and betrayal,
and Ginger Struve Barnes is a credible, engaging protagonist.
An excellent launch for a welcomed new series."
- - Jeremiah Healy, author
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of Carolyn G. Hart, Jill Churchill and Diane Mott Davidson, you'll
definitely want to add this new series to your library . . ."
- - Nancy Pickard, author
- re THE MAIN LINE IS MURDER
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with a brain!"
- - Ellie Miller, Independent
Reviewer
- re THE MAIN LINE IS MURDER
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